I

Where does the pain of birth, old age, illness and death throughout man’s life come from? Why does man suffer these things? They did not exist when man was first created. After man was tempted and corrupted by Satan and was then degenerated, these pains came about. The pain, troubles, and emptiness of man’s flesh, and all of the wretched things in the world of man—they all appeared after Satan corrupted man.

II

After man was corrupted by Satan, Satan began to torment man, and so man fell further, his sickness became more profound, his pain became ever greater, and he had an increasing sense that the world is empty and miserable, that it’s impossible to survive in this world, and that living in this world is increasingly hopeless. So this pain was all brought upon man by Satan and came after Satan corrupted man and they became degenerated.

from The Word, Vol. 3. The Discourses of Christ of the Last Days. The Significance of God’s Tasting of Worldly Suffering